Once Lucci entered the room,the bath,who looked more like a shallow pool began to fill itself up. Lucci undressed and entered the hot water,relaxing his sore muscles. He stayed like this for a moment,then he looked for a brush and soap before scrubing himself raw,nearly drawing blood at some point. Lucci wanted to get ride of their touches and their smells on him.
"You're dirty and you'll always be " laughed a nasty voice in his head making Lucci scrub harder and faster
Soon the water was rather pink than translucent,Lucci was too busy 'washing himself' to heard the door opening and a figure entering slowly
"Oi!Lucci you're here?"a voice screamed
Lucci did a spectaculary jump before turning himself to face...
"Luffy!What the fuck do you want ?"yelled a scarred Lucci,his heart beating faster than ever
"I just wanted to tell you that..."Luffy aproached and soon saw the pink water and the blood on Lucci's body
Lucci noticed where he was looking before covered his body...a guilty look on his face
"Get out...Just...Get out"whispered Lucci,trembling slightly
"Lucci,I..."Luffy was at a loss of words
"JUST GET THE FUCK OUT!"screamed Lucci,his eyes sending dagers at the pirate
Luffy didn't move,he took off his sandals and sat on the border of the pool,his feet in the water
"DIDN'T YOU HEAR? GET FUCKING LOST!"roared Lucci
"You're bleeding"remarqued Luffy
"Thank you for pointing the oblivious!"snapped Lucci
Luffy stretched his arms and caught Lucci,bringing him to his chest and hugging him. Lucci being Lucci,he digged his nails into Luffy's arms,drawing blood
"Release me,immediatly"hissed slowly Lucci
Luffy tightened his grip and Lucci began scratching him
"Release me release me release me release me"repeated Lucci like a mantra while hurting the younger man
But Luffy didn't let go and after a while Lucci gave up and let Luffy hold him,he just put his head on Luffy's shoulder
"You okay now?"asked quietly Luffy
"How could I be okay...I've been raped,tortured,betrayed,humiliated...I could never ever be okay"
"Because YOU don't want to get over it"
Luffy should have shut up but to late,Lucci strengthen his grip on Luffy's arms,Luffy winced and whined slightly
"You don't understand how I feel,how dirty I am because it's that...I AM DIRTY!"
"DON'T YOU DARE SAY THAT !"shouted Luffy
Lucci blinked owlishly at Luffy's outburst
"You,Rob Lucci,aren't dirty,it should be those sons of a bitch of Marines that should be dirty because they raped you!And not YOU you heard me!"stated Luffy
Lucci's grip loosened and he just hugged Luffy
"You're right I can't understand your pain but I could try to be at your place and the Rob Lucci I met at Enies Lobby wouldn't let bastards like them walk over him,he would have Rankyakued and Shiganed them to oblivion"joked Luffy
Lucci snikered a little at this
"You're right"he whispered
"But..."
"The Lucci you've met...died back at Enies Lobby"
"Nah!He is just here,in front of me...a little diferent but here anyway"smiled Luffy
Lucci straightened himself so that Luffy and him were at the same height and he asked something that gnawed his mind 'til Luffy saved him
"Why?"
"Huh?I don't understand"replied cluelessly Luffy
"Why would you saved me?...We have been ennemies,hell I tried to kill you and your friends and yet you saved me,a murderer like me,why?"
Luffy thought for a moment
"Because you're human"said Luffy
"Huh?"It was now Lucci's turn to be clueless
"You see yourself as a murderer but me I see a human...And any human should not went through things like you did"
Lucci smiled and tears fell off,Lucci wiped them angrily
"I hate that"Lucci admited
"That?"
"My emetions,since Enies Lobby they have been upside down...I fell weak"
"Do you think I'm weak"questioned Luffy
"What!No !...no you're far from weak and..."
"Yet I show my emotions,so I reiterate,do you think I am weak because I let my emotions show?"
"No"
"So don't considere yourself weak"
Lucci just smiled and hugged again Luffy
"This is getting out off your control...You're getting yourself to close of Luffy"whispered this nasty voice again
"So what did you want to tell me in the begining?"
"Huh?...I forgot"laughed Luffy
Lucci sweatdropped
"Ah!Yes,Hancock accepted to take us to Shabondy Archipelago,we sail tomorrow and I wanted to take you down to dinner"
"Okay,go first I'll catch you up later"
Luffy smiled and kissed Lucci's forehead and exited the room...Lucci was right...this was getting out off hand,his sudden attraction for the pirate...he should put distance between them.
Lucci didn't feel like eating anything any more,he just wanted to be alone for a while but he wanted...scratch that needed to see Luffy's smile,hear him laugh etc... Lucci just picked his food,he didn't feel at ease whit all joyous people around him but he'd do this if he could see Luffy
"Look at you...You look like a schoolgirl with her first crush" Lucci wanted to bang his head on the table and maybe drown himself in his food plate
"Damn this fucking voice"growled Lucci
"Excuse me sir"whispered a little voice
Lucci turned himself to the voice to see a little girl,a shy little girl
"Could...could I see your kitty form?"questionned the girl
"K..Ki...Kitty!" Lucci's right eyes twitched
"Pwease sir"she then used the puppy eyes on him
Lucci sighed put he transformed anyway,the little girl smiled and went on his knees
"Up please sir"pleaded the child
Lucci took her in his big hands and slowly brough her to his eyes level,she began petting and scratching him behinde the hears
"Thank you Kitty-san"she then kissed him on his nose,Lucci put her down and she waved saying bye-bye as he transformed back,a gohst of a smile on his lips
"Oi!Lucci!"
"Nani?"
Soon two sticks found their way up in his nose,Lucci pushed away a laughing Luffy from his face
"What the fuck was that for?"asked Lucci,standing up,a vein pumping angrily on his temple
"You should look at yourself,you're too funny"laughed Luffy,pointing the sticks still in Lucci's nose
Lucci squinted on his nose and quickly put the offending sticks away
"Come on Lucci,look at this"Luffy's back faced him and when Luffy turned to face Lucci,he had stick in his nose whose tips ended in his mouth,making him a funny face,he then took a basket before doing a 'dance'
"Like I said,you guys...It's 'KU' ku"
Soon he was followed by other women in his dance,all of them with stick in their nose,laugher was heard,Lucci was surprised to even heard himself snicker and chuckle.
After a while,people began to ask him to transform again then he was soon harassed but after Luffy interfered he was left alone but women began wanting to touch Luffy,to see how far he can stretch,and Lucci too,he nearly jumped out off his skin when someone brushed against him. They really needed to get away,as the two men went to escape a horde of rabbid fan girls followed them
"Quick,follow me"whispered a familliar voice
"NOOOOOOOO!THEY GOT AWAY!" "I DIDN'T GET TO TOUCH THEM YET!"
Luffy,Lucci and Margaret watched closely the hystericals women,hidden up on some roof
"That was close"mumbled Luffy and Lucci,glaring at the rabbid mob
"Come on,I know somewhere to hide"Margaret jumped to the other side to the roof they were on
Lucci and Luffy followed her
"Awwww...I could only carry this much off food"pouted Luffy
"Where did this thing come from?"wondered Lucci seeing the big meat piece on Luffy's back
Luffy began talking with Margaret and Lucci absent mindly listen their conversation but he was so deep in though that he couldn't hear them. They soon arrived to a house,once they entered it,they reconized the baasan
"What is it nyow Margaret?"said a voice
"Ahh!Old Bean Lady!"smiled Luffy
"And who are you calling a 'bean' ?"roared Nyon-baasan
"You should respect your elders"reproached Lucci,slaping gently Luffy on the head
"Well Luffy and Lucci are a little too popular with the women of the village..."said Margaret
"Well meeting a man is a rare experience for them so two well...You should probably stay out of sight for the moment"said the elderly woman
The boys went to sit next to Nyon while Margaret went to make tea when the old woman asked her to. Again Lucci tried to sort his mind out and he was oblivious to anything around him,he decided to 'come back' after a while,listening the elder woman while sip his tea
"The World Government have annonced the public execution of WhiteBeard's elite subordinate:Portgas D Ace!"said Nyon-baasan
"Ace is going to be executed?"asked Luffy as he put down his tea
Lucci looked at him,Luffy's face bore a surprised and scarred expression,Lucci frowned
"What's wrong with Luffy"wondered Lucci as he saw Luffy took a somber look
"Yes,he got captured by a pirate named BlackBeard and handed over to the Government,BlackBeard earned himself a place in the Shichibukai"quoted from the newspaper the elder woman
"Old lady..."whispered Luffy,trembling
Again Lucci frowned
"Luffy,what's wrong?"questioned Lucci while taking a sip from his tea
Luffy leapt out and gripped the old lady
"THAT'S MY BROTHER!ACE IS MY BIG BROTHER!"screamed Luffy
Lucci spat his drink,shocked while spraying the table and the pet snake the old lady had
"WHAT ? !"shouted Lucci and Nyon-baasan
Luffy questioned Nyon about the execution while Lucci was trying to recover from his shock
"I WANT TO SAVE ACE...WE'LL SAVE HIM!"
"Wait a minute Mugiwara 'we' I heard,I think not"growled Lucci
Luffy faced Lucci
"Wh...Why?"
"It's the moment"
"Don't you see,I don't want to put myself in danger,I just want to go home!"
Lucci put a foot on the guardrail ready to jump
"But we're nakama!"
"No we're not,we're just travel mate...that's all,all I want is to go home and live my life without danger or anything...On my way,I hope I'll find my former coworker and apologies to them or die trying"ended Lucci
Lucci jumped down,he know his arguments weren't good but he needed to put distance between them,Lucci began to run somewhere whithout any people
"FINE,RUN LIKE THE COWARD YOU ARE!"yelled Luffy
Those words hurt,more than a punch or anything,soon tears flooded but he keep running,once he was somewhere humanless,he screamed and cried is eyes and heart out,tears staining his shirt. Luffy's words still echoing in his mind.
He wasted everything
R&R